/// <summary>
/// Called instead of a constructor to acquire a WaveWriter
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Be sure to call Stop to close the object
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="fileName">Name the file to write to</param>
/// <param name="WaveFormat">Pointer to a WAVEFORMATEX structure describing the audio stream</param>
WaveWriter * WaveWriter::Start(const string& fileName, const WAVEFORMATEX * WaveFormat )
{
HANDLE fileHandle = CreateFile(fileName.c_str(), GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, CREATE_ALWAYS,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL | FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN,
NULL);
if (fileHandle == NULL)
{
return NULL;
}
WaveWriter * writer = new WaveWriter(fileHandle, WaveFormat);
//StringCchCopy(writer->m_szFilename, _countof(writer->m_szFilename), "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.wav");
// Yes, we do this twice.... Once to advance the write pointer so we don't lose any samples,
// and then once to put in the right length.
writer->WriteFileHeader();
return writer;
}
